samba on boot, and mounting windoze shares on boot

[wulff]

I know the Linux community wants newcomers to read to find their answers, which I'm cool with. Thing is: I've been Google-ing and combing the howtos for the past 2 days to try to come up with a solution to this problem:

I would like to start samba at boot, which I think I accomplished. Made my own script and then found a better one. I think I'm calling "samba.init" from inittab.

At that point, I'm calling another script "mntmldnfs" with a couple of smbmount lines to mount different directories, but nothing's happening. Samba's running, I think, because I can smbmount after boot from the console.

A note: I have no password on the account the shares are in, so I've been using the "guest" option to avoid a password prompt. I also tried playing around with the fstab file. I get a bootup message along the lines of "Can't mount some network file systems."

There's my problem in a nutshell. Can anyone help?

[nobspangle]

(generally) gentoo provides you with scripts to start and stop your daemons.
To make samba start on boot

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rc-update add samba default

To mount a network share at boot fstab is the way to do it add a line like

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//server/share    /mnt/point   smbfs   username=user,password=pass  0  0

You may need to use the ip address of the server rather than it's name, unless there is an entry in your hosts file.

[wulff]

Thanks a lot for the response. Quick, too.

I'll try this out as soon as I get a day off work, and let you know how it works.

[wulff]

It worked, and I owe you many thanks...

I'd seen it in other places where you put "username=user", etc, and I had been substituting my windows username and password. I could kick myself for that waster time.

Again, thanks for the help....